He won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1958

I believe the answer is:

agee

(Other definitions for agee that I've seen before include "In Ayr not straight" , "American writer" , "off the straight on Princes Street" , "off the straight at Gleneagles" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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